One of the most notable examples is the Tunguska Event of 1908, during which a similar-sized asteroid exploded over Siberia. The explosion flattened approximately 80 million trees across a vast ...

The main difference between the two asteroid events was that with Chelyabinsk occurred in a highly populated region, the Tunguska event occurred in a sparsely populated area. Tunguska and ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December 2024, measures between 130 and 300 feet in diameter. Its size is comparable to the ...

A 150-foot wide asteroid is expected to make a record-close ... The historic explosion happened in Tunguska, a remote forest area in the middle of Siberia. The blast had the power of 15 ...

Dr. Nicholson noted that the scale of the Nadir impact is reminiscent of the 1908 Tunguska event, which involved a smaller asteroid explosion in the atmosphere over Siberia. The research provides ...

The February 15 explosion of an incoming asteroid over in the Russian Urals was a unique event. No one in modern times had ever ... or half the diameter of the famous Tunguska impact of 1908, which ...